Robinson Murphy
Robinson MurphyAssociate Professor of Environmental Studies
Joined faculty in 2018
PhD, English, University of Notre Dame
MA, English, Boston College
BA, English and Philosophy, Boston College
Contact Information
Scholarly Interest
- Environmental Humanities
- Critical Theory
- Global Anglophone Fiction
- Scandinavian Studies
Research
A scholar of the environmental humanities, Robin recently completed his second academic manuscript, Climate Change and the Death Drive. He has just begun a new book project, The Arctic Unconscious: Climate Change and Nordic Art.
Robin is looking to start a writing group, and would welcome hearing from those interested in sharing works in progress.
Courses Taught
- ENV 400: Capstone
- ENV 345: Decolonial Environmentalisms
- ENV 285: Environmental Afrofuturism
- ENV 202: Environmental Humanities
- ENV 110: Global Climate Change
- GSIJ 100: Introduction to Gender, Sexuality and Intersectional Justice (taught through an environmental lens)
- FSEM 078: Sustainable Living and Learning Community
Publications
Book
Castration Desire: Less Is More in Global Anglophone Fiction. Bloomsbury, 2024.
Recent Journal Articles
“Trans* Imagining in Abdellah Taïa’s Un pays pour mourir.” Studies in the Novel. Coauthored with Sana Abdi Dalton. Forthcoming.
“Channeling Arctic Amplification in Joachim Trier’s Thelma (2017).” Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 15:3 (2025): 181-201.
“Queer Child, Decolonial Child: Beasts of the Southern Wild Revisited through an Ecocritical Lens.” Journal of Film and Video 75.4 (2023): 32-44.
“The Death-Driven Eco-Ethics of David Lowery’s The Green Knight (2021) and Darren Aronofsky’s mother! (2017).” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 42.5 (2023): 1350-1368.
“Climate Change and the Death Drive.” Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 27.2 (2023): 206-218.
"Castration Desire: Less Is More in Emma Donoghue’s Room." College Literature 49.1 (2022): 53-79.
"'Pain Comes in Waves': Eroding Bodies in Colm Tóibín’s The Blackwater Lightship." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 62.5 (2021): 552-563.
"Trans* Thinking in Irish Television and Film." Journal of Popular Film and Television 49.1 (2021): 52-61.